Vladimír Chovan (born September 26, 1963, in

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, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak politician (

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) and was Minister of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic from 2009 to 2010. Chovan studied at the Slovak University of Agriculture, Faculty of Mechanization of Agriculture, Nitra, and finished in 1985. He is married and has two children. He replaced Stanislav Becík as a result of to inner-party rivalries and was announced Minister of Agriculture by president

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September 23, 2009 and served until July 8, 2010, in the cabinet of Prime Minister

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. He pledges for a change in the

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in the

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. Chovan refused denials that his ministry is involved in corruption.

Footnotes

External links

Official government website depicting Chovan

Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic

Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic
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